Updated October 25, 2017

Sri Lanka Express

Santa Monica honors SL-Tamil transgender artist with $20,000 grant

The City of Santa Monica has honored a Tamil-Sri Lankan artist with one of its two $20,000 fellowships for artists specializing in storytelling.

The fellowships, described by the city’s cultural officials as "among the most robust, city-based individual artist support grants in the U.S.," were given to D’Lo, a queer/transgender writer/ performer and Dan Kwong, a veteran performance artist who has presented solo works since 1989, officials said.